Waldemar Young

Screenwriter

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Birth Place

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Born

July 01, 1878

Died

August 30, 1938

Cause of Death

Pneumonia

Biography

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Waldemar Young was known for his creative screenwriting skills. Young earned a film writing career following such successful contributions to titles such as "Suds" (1920), "The Off-Shore Pirate" (1921) and the Lon Chaney crime feature "The Unholy Three" (1925). He also appeared in "The Black Bird" (1926), the Lon Chaney crime picture "The Unknown" (1927) and the crime flick "The Sho...

Filmography

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Man-Proof (1938)

Test Pilot (1938)

The Plainsman (1937)

Rhythm on the Range (1936)

Contr to Screenplay const

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Island Of Lost Souls (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Are We Not Men?

Island Of Lost Souls (1932) -- (Movie Clip) A Laughing Jackass

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Elizabeth Young

Wife

Biography

Waldemar Young was known for his creative screenwriting skills. Young earned a film writing career following such successful contributions to titles such as "Suds" (1920), "The Off-Shore Pirate" (1921) and the Lon Chaney crime feature "The Unholy Three" (1925). He also appeared in "The Black Bird" (1926), the Lon Chaney crime picture "The Unknown" (1927) and the crime flick "The Show" (1927) with John Gilbert. Toward the end of his career, Young wrote the horror flick "Island of Lost Souls" (1933) with Charles Laughton, the Claudette Colbert historical love story "Cleopatra" (1934) and the dramatic adaptation "Men in White" (1934) with Clark Gable. Young more recently wrote "Test Pilot" (1938). Young was Brigham Young's grandson. Young was married to Elizabeth Young. Young passed away in August 1938 at the age of 60.

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Man-Proof (1938)

Test Pilot (1938)

The Plainsman (1937)

Rhythm on the Range (1936)

Contr to Screenplay const

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Peter Ibbetson (1935)

The Crusades (1935)

Cleopatra (1934)

Men in White (1934)

A Bedtime Story (1933)

Sinners in the Sun (1932)

The Miracle Man (1932)

Island of Lost Souls (1932)

The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Love Me Tonight (1932)

The Miracle Man (1932)

Sky Bride (1932)

Penrod and Sam (1931)

Compromised (1931)

The Girl of the Golden West (1930)

Ladies Love Brutes (1930)

Adapted and dial

The Girl of the Golden West (1930)

Tide of Empire (1929)

Where East Is East (1929)

The Trail of '98 (1929)

The Big City (1928)

West of Zanzibar (1928)

The Unknown (1927)

London After Midnight (1927)

The Show (1927)

Women Love Diamonds (1927)

London After Midnight (Reconstruction) (1927)

The Flaming Forest (1926)

The Blackbird (1926)

The Mystic (1925)

The Unholy Three (1925)

The Dixie Handicap (1925)

The Great Divide (1925)

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924)

Poisoned Paradise: The Forbidden Story of Monte Carlo (1924)

The Hill Billy (1924)

Poisoned Paradise (1924)

You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923)

Java Head (1923)

Salomy Jane (1923)

You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923)

Java Head (1923)

If You Believe It, It's So (1922)

Ebb Tide (1922)

A Prince There Was (1922)

Our Leading Citizen (1922)

Burning Sands (1922)

Ebb Tide (1922)

The Off-Shore Pirate (1921)

Experience (1921)

Cappy Ricks (1921)

The Girl in the Web (1920)

The Inferior Sex (1920)

The Spitfire of Seville (1919)

The Sundown Trail (1919)

The Unpainted Woman (1919)

A Taste of Life (1919)

Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie (1919)

Pretty Smooth (1919)

The Little White Savage (1919)

The Light of Victory (1919)

The Petal on the Current (1919)

The Fire Flingers (1919)

The Millionaire Pirate (1919)

New Love for Old (1918)

The Flash of Fate (1918)

Brace Up (1918)

Fast Company (1918)

Flirting with Death (1917)

The Clean-Up (1917)

A Stormy Knight (1917)

The Man Trap (1917)

The Clean-Up (1917)

The High Sign (1917)

The Man Trap (1917)

The Show Down (1917)

The Car of Chance (1917)

The Car of Chance (1917)

Cast (Short)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1925 Studio Tour (1925)

Life Events

1917

Screenwriting debut

Videos

Island Of Lost Souls (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Are We Not Men? Accidental guest Parker (Richard Arlen) and Lota (Kathleen Burke), whom he doesn't know is an experimental animal-human hybrid, think they're escaping when they're waylaid by gangs of half-beasts (Bela Lugosi their leader), and Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton) arrives to restore order, in Universal's Island Of Lost Souls, 1932.

Island Of Lost Souls (1932) -- (Movie Clip) A Laughing Jackass Paul Hurst as Donahue has the unlucky assignment of escorting Ruth (Leila Hyams), come to find her fiancè Parker (Richard Arlen), on the south sea island where he’s been taken in by mad Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton), knowing nothing as yet about his freaky man-beasts and “bio-anthropological research,” in Island Of Lost Souls, 1932.

Unholy Three, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) God's Gifted Genius Early scenes introducing two of the titular three, Hercules (Victor McLaglen) and Echo (Lon Chaney), at the carnival, their pickpocket friend Rosie (Mae Busch) working the crowd, in Tod Browning's original The Unholy Three, 1925.

Test Pilot (1938) -- (Movie Clip) What's A Little Weather? Just after the opening, mechanic Gunner (Spencer Tracy) perhaps not surprised but annoyed to find his pilot pal Jim (Clark Gable) not resting up before the flight, though he bounces back to meet sponsor Drake (Lionel Barrymore) before take-off, in Victor Fleming's Test Pilot, 1938.

Test Pilot (1938) -- (Movie Clip) I Forgot My Hat Leaving in a huff now that his plane's been fixed, cross-country test pilot Jim (Clark Gable) and Kansas local girl Ann (Myrna Loy) act like they don't care, his buddy Gunner (Spencer Tracy) offering consolation, in MGM's Test Pilot, 1938.

Island Of Lost Souls (1932) -- (Movie Clip) You Lost A Man South Seas freighter Captain Davies (Stanley Fields) delivering his cargo of animals, contrives to drop off rescued Parker (Richard Allen), whom he dislikes, with his mysterious customer Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton) and his strange looking crew, in Universal's Island Of Lost Souls, 1932.

Island Of Lost Souls (1932) -- (Movie Clip) A Man Has Come From The Sea We're only just finding out what Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton) is up to on his secret South Seas island, telling crony Montgomery (Arthur Hohl) why he wants his experimental part-ape female Lota (Kathleen Burke) to meet his new captive-guest Parker (Richard Arlen), in Island Of Lost Souls, 1932. from H.G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau

Island Of Lost Souls (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Strange Looking Natives For now, scientist Moreau (Charles Laughton) is the polite host, forced by circumstances beyond his control to welcome shipwrecked Parker (Richard Arlen), to his private South Seas island, so his comments are circumspect, in Universal’s Island Of Lost Souls, 1932, from an H.G. Wells novel.

Plainsman, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Ain't Another Corpse Maker Like Him! Famous and relatively gritty scene from producer-director C.B. DeMille, Wild Bill Hickock (Gary Cooper) intervenes in a riverboat poker game in which his newly married and ingenuous friend Buffalo Bill Cody (James Ellison) is being had by a fancy gambler (Francis McDonald), in The Plainsman, 1936.

Plainsman, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Has She Tamed You Yet? We haven’t learned the name yet of Gary Cooper, in St. Louis with a kid (George Ernest), whom he’s shown his watch-case photo of Jean Arthur, and told tales about Buffalo Bill (James Ellison), whom we soon learn is his pal, with his new wife (Helen Burgess), and we meet McCall (Porter Hall), C.B. DeMille at the helm, early in The Plainsman, 1936.

Plainsman, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) That's Just What I Told Custer Buffalo Bill Cody (James Ellison) and wife (Helen Burgess), who plan to open a hotel, in Kansas with new friend Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur) when her erstwhile boyfriend Wild Bill Hickock (Gary Cooper) appears, making a case on behalf of General Custer, and planning his own risky mission, in C.B. DeMille’s The Plainsman, 1936.

Plainsman, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Know You Could Read Director C.B. DeMille reveals that Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur) has a pretty spiky thing with boyfriend Wild Bill Hickock (Gary Cooper) as the riverboat carrying him, pal Buffalo Bill (James Ellison) and his new wife, along with gun-runner Lattimer (Charles Bickford), arrives Leavenworth, KS, in The Plainsman, 1936.

Family

Brigham Young

Grandfather

Companions

Elizabeth Young

Wife

Bibliography

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